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Posts tagged with 'peace' at MetaFilter.Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:04:13 -0800Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:04:13 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Action Man: Battlefield Casualtieshttp://www.metafilter.com/150713/Action%2DMan%2DBattlefield%2DCasualties
<a href="http://battlefieldcasualties.co.uk/">Action Man: Battlefield Casualties</a> is a disturbing spoof toy commercial in a campaign by Veterans for Peace UK to raise the military recruitment age from 16 to 18. Warning: autoplaying video with graphic violence. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150713Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:04:13 -0800TheophileEscargotThe Better Angels of our Naturehttp://www.metafilter.com/149990/The%2DBetter%2DAngels%2Dof%2Dour%2DNature
<a href="http://www.fallen.io/ww2/">An interactive look at the deaths of WWII and the relative peace that has followed</a> Highlights include the sacrifices of the Soviet Union, the toll of past atrocities and a breakdown of holocaust deaths. Numbers are adjusted to world population at the end. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149990Thu, 28 May 2015 07:06:56 -0800laptolainGene Wolfe: The Reliably Unreliable Authorhttp://www.metafilter.com/149475/Gene%2DWolfe%2DThe%2DReliably%2DUnreliable%2DAuthor
<i>Whether it is Alden Dennis Weer in </i>Peace<i>, Severian in </i>The Book of the New Sun<i> and </i>The Urth of the New Sun<i>, Patera Silk in </i>The Book of the Long Sun<i>, Horn in the </i>The Book of the Short Sun<i>, Mr. Green in </i>There Are Doors<i>, or perhaps most interestingly Latro in </i>Soldier of the Mist<i> and its sequels, the vast majority of Wolfe's narrators and perspective characters are <a href="http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2014/07/gene-wolfe-reliably-unreliable-author-chris-gerwel/" title="Gene Wolfe: The Reliably Unreliable Author">explicitly shown to be unreliable</a>.</i> Elsewhere: <a href="https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2007/gwng0704.htm">How To Read Gene Wolfe</a>, <a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/we-read-things-differently">We Read Things Differently</a>, and <a href="http://ultan.org.uk/review-botns/">Mapping a Masterwork: A Critical Review of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149475Fri, 08 May 2015 08:16:29 -0800smcgPraise for the glories of war and the futility of peace.http://www.metafilter.com/144386/Praise%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Dglories%2Dof%2Dwar%2Dand%2Dthe%2Dfutility%2Dof%2Dpeace
<a href="http://www.prx.org/pieces/18882-war-vs-peace">"Here's to words like courage, sacrifice, discipline, glory, maimed, dead. Here's to war."</a> <a href="https://www.joefrank.com/">Joe Frank</a> on war. (excerpted from the 1990 show entitled "<em>I'm Not Crazy</em>")
Happy Veteran's Day. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144386Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:28:22 -0800dancestoblueApril 4-9, 1968, staging MLK Jr.'s funeral and keep peace in Atlantahttp://www.metafilter.com/144328/April%2D4%2D9%2D1968%2Dstaging%2DMLK%2DJrs%2Dfuneral%2Dand%2Dkeep%2Dpeace%2Din%2DAtlanta
<a href="http://www.atlantamagazine.com/features/MLK-funeral-1968/"><em>Funeral</em>: An oral history</a> of the remarkable behind-the-scenes effort to stage Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 funeral and keep peace in Atlanta while 110 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_assassination_riots">other</a> <a href="http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/Kingfuneral.html">cities</a> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/04/1968theyearofrevolt.usa">burned</a>. Memories from people who were directly involved, from Carl Sanders, the former governor of Georgia, and Xernona Clayton, who organized events for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to Bernice or Bunny King, the youngest King child, and June Dobbs Butts, a friend of King's since childhood who flew home to Atlanta from New York to attend the funeral. (From <em>Atlanta</em> magazine) Additional information and links:
<ul><li><a href="http://www.history.com/speeches/lbj-on-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr#lbj-on-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr">President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation about the tragedy in a broadcast from the White House</a> (audio with a still image)</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People's_Campaign">Wikipedia page on the Poor People's Campaign</a>, which was organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and carried out in the wake of King's assassination</li>
<li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/11/martin-luther-king-speech-harry-belafonte">Harry Belafonte remembers 'I Have a Dream'</a>, and </li>
<li><a href="http://www.scu.edu/ethics/architects-of-peace/Belafonte/essay.html">Harry Belafonte Reflects on Working Toward Peace</a></li>
<li>"<a href="http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/multimediaentry/doc_the_drum_major_instinct/">The Drum Major Instinct</a>," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBiFnDuCJIU">King's second-to-final sermon</a>, delivered on Feb. 4, 1968, mentioned in <em>Funeral</em> as King's final sermon</li>
<li>"<a href="http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/multimediaentry/doc_unfulfilled_dreams/">Unfulfilled Dreams</a>," <a href="http://vimeo.com/35436615">King's final sermon</a>, given on March 3, 1968</li>
<li>"<a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm">I've Been to the Mountain Top</a>," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-OIjLDMWec">King's final speech</a>, given on April 3, 1968 (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/102195/Something-is-happening-in-our-world-Memphis-Cairo-Madison">previously</a>)</li></ul> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144328Sat, 08 Nov 2014 17:09:12 -0800filthy light thiefNobel Peace Prize 2014 goes to an Indian and a Pakistanihttp://www.metafilter.com/143476/Nobel%2DPeace%2DPrize%2D2014%2Dgoes%2Dto%2Dan%2DIndian%2Dand%2Da%2DPakistani
"Kailash Satyarthi, the child rights activist from India, and Malala Yousufzai, the activist for girls education in Pakistan, were announced as the <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/malala-kailash-satyarthi-win-nobel-peace-prize/article6488625.ece">joint winners</a> of this year's <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/press.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday." tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143476Fri, 10 Oct 2014 03:05:50 -0800vivekspaceWhen he heard the song of the chickadees, he could finally relaxhttp://www.metafilter.com/142071/When%2Dhe%2Dheard%2Dthe%2Dsong%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dchickadees%2Dhe%2Dcould%2Dfinally%2Drelax
GQ: <a href="http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit">The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit</a>. "For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend - or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest." <em>"Some people want me to be this warm and fuzzy person. All filled with friendly hermit wisdom. Just spouting off fortune-cookie lines from my hermit home."</em>
...
<em>He stole radios and earphones and hid an antenna up in trees. For a while, he listened to a lot of conservative talk radio. Later he got hooked on classical music - Tchaikovsky and Brahms, yes; Bach, no. "Bach is too pristine," he said. He went through a spell of listening to television shows on the radio; "theater of the mind," he called it. Everybody Loves Raymond was a favorite. But his undying passion was classic rock: the Who, AC/DC, Judas Priest, and above all, Lynyrd Skynyrd. We covered hundreds of topics while chatting in jail, and nothing received higher praise than Lynyrd Skynyrd. "They will be playing Lynyrd Skynyrd songs in a thousand years," he proclaimed.</em>
...
<em>"I did examine myself," he said. "Solitude did increase my perception. But here's the tricky thing—when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant. The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn't even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free."
That was nice. But still, I pressed on, there must have been some grand insight revealed to him in the wild.
He returned to silence. Whether he was thinking or fuming or both, I couldn't tell. Though he did arrive at an answer. I felt like some great mystic was about to reveal the Meaning of Life.
"Get enough sleep."</em> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142071Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:21:30 -0800Wordshoreto end all warshttp://www.metafilter.com/141632/to%2Dend%2Dall%2Dwars
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/first-world-war-century-anniversary-peacemakers">First world war – a century on, time to hail the peacemakers</a></br>
"On the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, we should remember those who tried to stop a catastrophe" <blockquote>We will be asked to do a lot of commemorating over these next four and a half years, but whom and what should we commemorate, and in what spirit? Today most people would surely agree that the war of 1914-1918 was not fought for the lofty motives that each side claimed, and that we all would be better off if it had not been fought at all. Before he died, Harry Patch, the last surviving British veteran of the war, said it best: "It was not worth even one life." Yet all the traditional ways we remember wars make little space for this feeling.
...Of course we should remember the dead, especially those whose lives were tragically cut short in their youth. But there is a vast difference between honouring the memory of a family member and honouring the cause for which he died. The customary ways of looking back on war too easily allow us to confuse the two: military cemeteries with the gravestones in ranks like soldiers on parade, parades themselves, statues (which are almost invariably of generals), and war museums and their exhibits of tanks, planes, machine guns, artillery pieces and other technology for meting out death. Let us remember the dead, yes, in these years ahead, but let us also remember the men and women who recognised the war for the madness it was and did all they could to stop it...
Why is there no blue plaque outside Pentonville prison, where Morel served six months at hard labour, honouring the other war resisters locked up there as well? Every leading country in north America and Europe has spruced up its war museums for these anniversary years, but why are there so few museums about those who fought for peace?</blockquote>
*(<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/time-honour-first-world-war-peacemakers">letters of reaction</a> to the Guardian on this piece)
<a href="http://www.worldwar1postcards.com/conscientious-objectors.php">WW1 Conscientious Objectors on Postcards</a>
<blockquote>During the Great War, the conscientious objector (C.O.) was a perfect subject for ridicule and fun on picture postcards... Many of the 1,000 or so conscientious objectors who did go to prison did not suffer in silence. They were usually committed, articulate and clear-headed men and picture postcards were among the methods they used to get their message across to the public... In 1916, a Field Service Post Card almost certainly saved the lives of 16 conscientious objectors... It is not known whether the "Richmond Sixteen" card still exists, but below is an example of how a FSPC should have been filled in and an example of how Brocklesby is believed to have coded the card which saved their lives.</blockquote>
*<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/york/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8342000/8342995.stm">Conscientious objectors in prison</a>: the story of the Richmond Sixteen
*British suffragist <a href="https://dianaoverbey.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/open-christmas-letter-december-1914/">Emily Hobhouse &amp; the "Open Christmas Letter"</a>
*on Edmund Dene Morel, "Britain's leading investigative journalist" - <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments/a-history-of-the-first-world-war-in-100-moments-campaign-for-peace-turned-former-hero-into-public-enemy-no-1-9560686.html">Campaign for peace turned former hero into public enemy No 1</a>
*Guardian "From The Archive" - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/21/1917-bertrand-russell-against-conscription">19 March 1917: A question of principle</a>: Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, logician, and essayist, dares to speak out against conscription as more British men are sent to fight in the Great War (1914–18)
*BBC - <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27404266">WW1: The conscientious objectors who refused to fight</a>
*Mirror UK - <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/world-war-conscientious-objectors-who-3553338">The World War I conscientious objectors who were worked to death in labour camps, jailed and tortured</a>
*Morning Star - "<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-f9ff-Anti-war-activism-Blessed-be-the-peacemakers">...the too-often forgotten story of the early conscientious objectors who helped shape today's peace movement</a>"
<a href="http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/pacifism">Pacifism and Conscientious Objection</a>
(overview &amp; stats from the British Library "during World War One in Britain, the US, Canada and New Zealand")
*<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/worldwarone/what-happened-to-conscientious-objectors-during-ww1/5553002">What happened to conscientious objectors during World War One</a> - "Here in Australia, the First World War conjures up the image of the ANZACs—young men volunteering and travelling across the globe to serve the nation. There is, however, another side to the story—what happened to those who didn't volunteer. Annabelle Quince explores the brutality directed at conscientious objectors."
*<a href="http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/first-world-war/conscientious-objection">Conscientious objection in the First World War</a> - "As a nation, New Zealand took a full part in the First World War. More than 100,000 New Zealanders served overseas, and there was strong support for the war on the home front. But there were also people who opposed the war, for political, religious or moral reasons. Some of these people – conscientious objectors – paid a heavy price for their stance."
*<a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/can/summary/v091/91.1.crerar.html">Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objectors in Canada during the First World War (review)</a> &amp; <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=mPWthPjkucsC">Google Books link to the book</a>
*<a href="https://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/viewFile/1224/1216">Conscientious Objectors in the Context of Canadian Peace Movements</a> <small>(PDF)</small>
*<a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/conscientiousobjection/co%20website/pages/HistoryNew.htm">Conscientious Objection in America</a>
*<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/08/remembrance-sunday-quakers_n_4241140.html">Remembrance Sunday: Quakers Say Conscientious Objectors Should Be Honoured Too</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/quakers-to-stage-white-feather-diaries-a-series-of-national-events-to-honour-wwis-conscientious-objectors-8921349.html">Quakers to stage 'White Feather Diaries', a series of national events to honour WWI's conscientious objectors</a> (social media project at <a href="http://whitefeatherdiaries.org/">whitefeatherdiaries.org</a>)
Colossal - <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/tower-of-london-poppies/">888,246 Ceramic Poppies Surround the Tower of London to Commemorate WWI</a> (on Mashable, <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/07/29/wwi-poppies-photos/">more photos</a>)
The American Scholar - <a href="http://theamericanscholar.org/i-tried-to-stop-the-bloody-thing/">'I Tried to Stop the Bloody Thing'</a>:
"In World War I, nearly as many British men refused the draft—20,000—as were killed on the Somme's first day.
Why were those who fought for peace forgotten?"
(long essay/excerpt from Hochschild's book discussing Keir Hardie &amp; Bertrand Russell, among others)
NPR: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/138823855/the-human-toll-of-the-war-to-end-all-wars">The Human Toll Of The War 'To End All Wars'</a>
(author interview; <i>Fresh Air</i> audio <small>~38 min.</small>, written highlights, link to excerpt of book)
Counterfire - <a href="http://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/16620-to-end-all-wars-how-the-first-world-war-divided-britain">To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain</a> (book review)
<blockquote>Adam Hochschild has written a readable and gripping account of the prelude to war, and the political and military decisions which accompanied it. He goes through the prosecution of the war itself, highlighting the almost unbelievable slaughter visited on the young men of Europe and of its empires. He also pays a great deal of attention to those who opposed the war and spells out the severe and sometimes deadly consequences for those who did so.
It is particularly relevant given the 100 year anniversary of the start of the war next year, and the attempts by government and the establishment to present a certain view of the conflict. The agenda seems to be this: encourage local activity which stresses commemorating the dead, and where people find out local history and family links to the war, but avoid dealing with any criticism about how the war was conducted. In particular, the Ministry of Defence is apparently worried that the generals who decided the often disastrous strategies, especially Douglas Haig, will come in for too much criticism. This fear should be well founded, for the generals of the First World War deserve bitter criticism...</blockquote> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/30/britain-first-world-war-biggest-error-niall-ferguson">Britain entering first world war was 'biggest error in modern history'</a>
"Historian Niall Ferguson says Britain could have lived with German victory and should have stayed out of war" <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/136166/I-suppose-its-debatable">previously</a>)</small>
Western Morning News - <a href="http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/act-remembrance-losing-original-sentiment/story-13818771-detail/story.html">Is act of remembrance losing its original 'never again' sentiment?</a>
Green Left - <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/56246">Lest we forget why Anzac Day glorifies war</a>
Simon Jenkins - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/30/first-world-war-worship-sickening-avalanche">Germany, I apologise for this sickening avalanche of first world war worship</a>
No Glory - <a href="http://www.noglory.org/index.php/articles/119-how-to-stop-the-commemoration-of-world-war-one-becoming-a-justification-for-future-wars">How to stop the commemoration of World War One becoming a justification for future wars</a>
"The more the dead and injured of the First World War are forgotten in a rush of chauvinistic nostalgia, the more likely it is that dead will pile up in future conflicts. This is not just a battle to remember the past correctly. It's about political priorities in the present. It's about keeping the peace in the future."
Guardian UK - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/1914-conflicts-history-repeating-first-world-war">Echoes of 1914: are today's conflicts a case of history repeating itself?</a>
The Atlantic - <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/just-how-likely-is-another-world-war/375320/">Just How Likely Is Another World War?</a> Assessing the similarities and differences between 1914 and 2014
<small>previously: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote">Debs Quixote</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/98272/The-pacifists-who-went-to-war-violence-and-pacifism-in-a-world-of-war">the pacifists who went to war; violence and pacifism in a world of war</a></small> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141632Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:36:34 -0800flexA time to be born and a time to diehttp://www.metafilter.com/136086/A%2Dtime%2Dto%2Dbe%2Dborn%2Dand%2Da%2Dtime%2Dto%2Ddie
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?hp&_r=0">Pete Seeger</a>, singer, musician, songwriter, political activist for more than 7 decades died, age 94. As a song writer,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger"> he is best known</a> as the author or co-author of <a href="http://youtu.be/T1tqtvxG8O4">Where Have All the Flowers Gone</a>?,<a href="http://youtu.be/Rl-yszPdRTk"> If I Had a Hammer</a>, and <a href="http://youtu.be/iRgeJuZlDmE">Turn, Turn, Turn!</a> <a href="http://youtu.be/PW4XxX06AmA">The Story Behind "Forever Young" by Pete Seeger</a>
A <a href="http://peteseeger.net/wp/">Pete Seeger appreciation page</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtAU43MM14">Pete Seeger on "The Johnny Cash Show" complete and uncut
</a>
Turn Turn Turn! lyrics
<em>To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time for every purpose, under Heaven
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time to love, a time to hate
A time for peace, I swear it's not too late</em> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.136086Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:57:22 -0800nickyskyeNobel Peace Prize goes to OPCW, citing Syrian conflicthttp://www.metafilter.com/132770/Nobel%2DPeace%2DPrize%2Dgoes%2Dto%2DOPCW%2Dciting%2DSyrian%2Dconflict
<a href="http://www.opcw.org/">The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons</a> has been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/world/chemical-weapons-watchdog-wins-nobel-peace-prize.html?_r=0">awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize</a>, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee saying, "Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons." The OPCW -- which has a similar role of inspection and advocacy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, one of the recipients of the 2005 Peace Prize -- was founded in 1997 in the Hague to oversee the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 and to advocate for the elimination of chemical weapons around the world.
The first Director-General of the OPCW, Brazilian diplomat José Maurício Bustani, was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1944879.stm">removed from office</a> in 2002 over his attempts to bring Iraq into the OPCW and allow inspections of Iraq's chemical weapons regime. The Bush Administration felt that any such inspections would be too lenient and dispatched John Bolton to the Hague to call an emergency session calling for Bustani's removal. The removal (48-3, with 43 abstentions) was later <a href="http://www.ilo.org/dyn/triblex/triblexmain.fullText?p_lang=en&p_judgment_no=2232&p_language_code=EN">ruled to be improper by the International Labour Organization</a> (itself a Peace Prize recipient in 1969), but Bustani was not reinstated.
Malala Yousafzai (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/132729/Malala-Yousafzai-leaves-Jon-Stewart-speechless">previously</a>) was widely seen to be the front-runner for the prize this year, with Ladbrokes putting 5/3 odds on the 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for women's education. This is the second year in a row the committee has awarded the Peace Prize to an organization rather than an individual (the 2012 prize went to the European Union), which marks the first time the Peace Prize has been awarded to organizations rather than individuals in consecutive years. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.132770Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:19:22 -0800Etrigan"Elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal, the poor."http://www.metafilter.com/130804/Elites%2Dpreying%2Don%2Dthe%2Dweak%2Dthe%2Dgullible%2Dthe%2Dmarginal%2Dthe%2Dpoor
<i><blockquote>"We condition the poor and the working class to go to war. We promise them honor, status, glory, and adventure. We promise boys they will become men. We hold these promises up against the dead-end jobs of small-town life, the financial dislocations, credit card debt, bad marriages, lack of health insurance, and dread of unemployment. The military is the call of the Sirens, the enticement that has for generations seduced young Americans working in fast food restaurants or behind the counters of Walmarts to fight and die for war profiteers and elites."</blockquote></i> -- <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/us/war-betrayal-chris-hedges?">War is Betrayal. Persistent Myths of Combat</a>, an essay by <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges/">Chris Hedges</a> of Truthdig. Responses within. <b>Responses</b>
* Roy Scranton (Veteran of the Iraq War, co-editor of the book <em>Fire and Forget</em>): <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/discussion-war-betrayal-redux/misreading-war-literature">Misreading War Literature</a>
* Phillip Carter (Former US Army officer and Iraq war veteran): <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/discussion-war-betrayal-redux/we-arent-victims">We Aren't Victims</a>
* Joyce S. Goldberg (Associate Professor of History at the UT Arlington): <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/discussion-war-betrayal-redux/false-masculinity">False Masculinity</a>
* Chris Lombardi (Writer): <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/discussion-war-betrayal-redux/veterans-who-dissent">Veterans Who Dissent</a>
* William Treseder (Served in the USMC in Iraq and Afghanistan): <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/discussion-war-betrayal-redux/false-portrait">A False Portrait</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130804Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:03:05 -0800zarqA New Era for Iran?http://www.metafilter.com/130619/A%2DNeww%2DEra%2Dfor%2DIran
Iran <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57596905/hasan-rouhani-irans-new-president-sworn-in/">has a new president</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Rouhani">Hasan Rouhani</a>, does that mean there might be hope for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/03/iran-president-hassan-rouhani-us-relations">a thawing in diplomatic relations?</a> In his inaugral speech Roughani urges <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23565996">an end to sanctions</a> and promises a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10221401/Hassan-Rouhani-promises-new-era-in-Iran-at-inauguration.html">new era</a>. While the White House response seems <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/04/obama-administration-iran">cautiously optimisitic</a> US Senators have been pressing for <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10221163/Full-text-Senators-letter-to-Barack-Obama-on-Iran-sanctions.html">tougher sanctions</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130619Sun, 04 Aug 2013 09:42:34 -0800Artw"If people were more concerned, I wouldn't have to be there."http://www.metafilter.com/127780/If%2Dpeople%2Dwere%2Dmore%2Dconcerned%2DI%2Dwouldnt%2Dhave%2Dto%2Dbe%2Dthere
Her encampment is 'an old patio umbrella draped in a white plastic sheet secured with binder clips. It is flanked by two large boards with messages in capital letters: BAN ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR HAVE A NICE DOOMSDAY and LIVE BY THE BOMB, DIE BY THE BOMB. This rudimentary shelter has been positioned outside the White House for more than three decades. It is a monument itself now, widely considered the longest-running act of political protest in the United States, and this woman, Concepcion Picciotto — Connie, as she's known to many — <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/05/02/connie-picciotto-has-kept-vigil-near-the-white-house-for-32-years-why-and-at-what-cost/?hpid=z5">is its longest-running caretaker.'</a> Accompanying Photos: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/keeping-a-vigil/2013/05/02/14045c22-b336-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_gallery.html#photo=1">Keeping a Vigil</a>
From 1988, Toledo Magazine: <a href="http://prop1.org/conchita/vigil/8812life.htm">A Life of Protest</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127780Mon, 06 May 2013 13:29:45 -0800zarqPeace is liberty in tranquillityhttp://www.metafilter.com/127331/Peace%2Dis%2Dliberty%2Din%2Dtranquillity
<a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/UK-Peace-Index-2013-IEP-Report.pdf">The UK Peace Index</a> <small>[PDF]</small>, a new publication from The <a href="http://economicsandpeace.org/">Institute for Economics and Peace</a> (IEP), has produced a startling new headline: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/04/public-perception-crime-higher">against public perceptions of crime</a>, both crime and homicide have fallen significantly. The fall over the last decade has resulted in the UK homicide rate now being roughly equivalent to that of the Western European average, and it is now at its lowest level since 1978. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/116293/hosb1811.pdf">The last ONS data from 2010/11</a> <small>[PDF]</small> suggest that even people who trust official statistics believe crime has gone up. 66% of them believed this was the case. Among those who distrust official statistics, 80% believe crime has gone up. However, among victims and non-victims of crimes alike, only a minority believe they live in an area where crime is <em>above</em> the national average. Separate research by <a href="http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/dentl/research/themes/appliedclinicalresearch/violenceandsociety/">Cardiff University</a> suggests injuries from violent crime <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22269161">are down by 14% in 2012</a> in England and Wales.
Furthermore, the Peace Index researchers <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22268015">are at a loss to explain why violence is falling</a> - not just in the UK but elsewhere - and dismiss many of the existing theories.
For those that are interested, the IEP has now also produced its second <a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.org/uspeaceindex/">US Peace Index</a>. The data there, too, show a sharp decline in violence. The US is more peaceful domestically now than at any other time over the last twenty years; since 1991 there has been a substantial and sustained reduction in direct violence across the US. The index showed that Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Minnesota were the most peaceful states - and that Florida, Nevada, Tennessee and Louisiana were the least peaceful - perhaps explaining the ouroboros nature of arguments about the (de)merits of gun control.
Lest one get too excited, the same organisation also produces a <a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.org/globalpeaceindex/2012-gpi-findings/">Global Peace Index</a>, <a href="http://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012-GPI-Map-with-Rankings-and-Scores.pdf">which Iceland tops</a> <small>[PDF]</small>. The UK ranks 29th. The US ranks 88th.
Related: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/surveys/list-of-surveys/survey.html?survey=Crime+Survey+for+England+and+Wales">British Crime Survey for England and Wales</a>; <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-june-2012/index.html">ONS Crime Statistics</a>.
Previously: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/61627/Punch-line-inside">Punch line inside</a> (Global Peace Index, 2007). tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127331Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:40:09 -0800MuffinManPeace and Enlightenment Vs Close Harmony Girl Groupshttp://www.metafilter.com/124539/Peace%2Dand%2DEnlightenment%2DVs%2DClose%2DHarmony%2DGirl%2DGroups
Why <i>Young Avengers #1</i>, the <a href="http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2013/01/it-was-fifty-years-ago-today/">"Perfect Pop"</a> comic from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, <a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/01/28/she-has-no-head-why-young-avengers-is-the-future-of-comics/">is the future of Suphero comics</a>. <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?id=43520&page=article">Commentary Track: Gillen &amp; McKelvie Discuss "Young Avengers" #1</a> - complete with the first few pages of script. <a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/02/01/young-adult-library-association-2013-great-graphic-novels/">Young Adult Library Association Names 2013's Great Graphic Novels for Teens</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124539Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:38:18 -0800ArtwLet's Show Them: We're NOT Going To War.http://www.metafilter.com/124207/Lets%2DShow%2DThem%2DWere%2DNOT%2DGoing%2DTo%2DWar
<a href="http://archives.library.wisc.edu/uw-archives/exhibits/protests/Peace1940.jpg">Let's Show Them: We're NOT Going To War.</a> "WHY THE CONVOCATION? This is one of the most effective means for Wisconsin students to serve notice, along with 1,000,000 other students, that WE'RE NOT GOING TO WAR -- ever again!" A protest handbill from the University of Wisconsin, announcing a campus-wide peace demonstration, on April 11, 1940. From <a href="http://archives.library.wisc.edu/uw-archives/exhibits/protests/1940s.html">the UW Library's compendium of resources on protests and social action</a> at UW-Madison from 1910 through the end of the 20th century. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124207Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:44:50 -0800escabecheMr. President was fascinated by gunfighters.http://www.metafilter.com/121534/Mr%2DPresident%2Dwas%2Dfascinated%2Dby%2Dgunfighters
<a href="http://www.kyotojournal.org/kjselections/kjmrpresident.html">Coyote Man, Mr. President & the Gunfighters.</a> A prose poem, written by Gary Snyder, that should be required reading for whoever is in the White House on January 20. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121534Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:56:10 -0800John of MichiganNo Prize Awardedhttp://www.metafilter.com/120801/No%2DPrize%2DAwarded
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world/nobel-peace-prize.html">The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the European Union.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120801Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:43:28 -0800gerryblogsowing seeds of lovehttp://www.metafilter.com/118754/sowing%2Dseeds%2Dof%2Dlove
<a href="http://theforgivenessproject.com/uncategorized/arno-michaels-usa/">Arno Michaels used to be the worst kind of asshole.</a> Now he's working to help others not be that kind of asshole. He has a website called <a href="http://lifeafterhate.org/">Life After Hate.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.118754Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:55:28 -0800vrakatarAung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecturehttp://www.metafilter.com/117020/Aung%2DSan%2DSuu%2DKyis%2DNobel%2DLecture
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/world/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-accepts-nobel-peace-prize.html">21 Years Later, Aung San Suu Kyi Receives Her Nobel Peace Prize.</a> After two decades spent mostly under <a href="http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/7004">house arrest</a>, Aung San Suu Kyi has finally <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1809">delivered her acceptance speech</a> in Oslo for the <a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/">Nobel peace prize</a> she was awarded in 1991. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.117020Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:04:37 -0800homunculusHow to dispel gossiphttp://www.metafilter.com/116143/How%2Dto%2Ddispel%2Dgossip
<a href="http://5by5.tv/specials/6">In five minutes, Dan Benjamin graciously and honestly recollects and signs off the 120-episode technology/Apple podcast The Talk Show.</a> (can't listen? <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4003165">summary of remarks</a>).
Benjamin co-hosted TTS with writer John Gruber, who on Friday controversially <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/18/the-talk-show">announced he was taking the show to Mule Syndicate alone.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.116143Mon, 21 May 2012 08:59:31 -0800michaelh+++INHALE - CALM!!!+++ +++EXHALE - RELAX!!!+++http://www.metafilter.com/114675/INHALE%2DCALM%2DEXHALE%2DRELAX
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSQFzw1pEE">Dalek Relaxation Tape</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.114675Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:33:29 -0800ArtwThe last word on warfarehttp://www.metafilter.com/113332/The%2Dlast%2Dword%2Don%2Dwarfare
A short conversation on <a href='http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/02/15/horgan-hayden-and-the-last-word-on-warfare/'>the cultural and biological origins of war</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.113332Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:42:57 -0800latkesPutting away the dishes at the end of the Iraq Warhttp://www.metafilter.com/110664/Putting%2Daway%2Dthe%2Ddishes%2Dat%2Dthe%2Dend%2Dof%2Dthe%2DIraq%2DWar
With <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/12/20111218513415803.html">official end</a> of the <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/obama-got-us-out-of-iraq-but-voters-just-dont-care-anymore/250132/">Iraq War</a> comes the matter of <a href="http://artinfo.com/news/story/753997/artist-michael-rakowitz-on-how-his-saddam-hussein-dinner-party-became-an-international-incident">returning Saddam Hussein's plates</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.110664Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:22:56 -0800Brandon BlatcherBorders. Security. Refugees. Jerusalem.http://www.metafilter.com/109032/Borders%2DSecurity%2DRefugees%2DJerusalem
The Atlantic is in the middle of a <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/introducing-a-4-part-special-report-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/247263/">four-part special report</a> on the Israel / Palestinian peace process, called "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/is-peace-possible/">Is Peace Possible?</a>" which features multimedia presentations on and analyses of what they believe are the four core issues of the conflict: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/drawing-an-israel-palestine-border/247264/">Borders</a>, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/the-role-of-security-in-an-israeli-palestinian-peace-deal/247598/">Security</a>, Refugees, and Jerusalem. <small>(The latter two will be released on Monday, November 7 and 14th, respectively)</small> The report was put together in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.centerpeace.org/">S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace</a>. To Weigh In: The Project's <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/IsPeacePossible">Twitter Feed</a>
Additional reading / Associated materials: <em>(The "Video" pages contain links to further reading that give both the Palestinian and Israeli perspectives.)</em>
<strong>Borders</strong>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/drawing-an-israel-palestine-border/247264/">Video</a> (and additional links) / <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2011/10/transcript-for-is-peace-possible-chapter-1-borders/247342/">Transcript</a>
* <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/how-to-connect-the-west-bank-and-gaza-strip/247475/">How to Connect the West Bank and the Gaza Strip</a>
* <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/difficult-truths-on-borders/247360/">Difficult Truths on Borders</a>
<strong>Security</strong>
* <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/the-role-of-security-in-an-israeli-palestinian-peace-deal/247598/">Video</a> (And Additional Links) / <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2011/10/transcript-for-is-peace-possible-chapter-2-security/247636/">Transcript</a>
* <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/the-most-contentious-settlements-in-the-west-bank/247650/">The Most Contentious Settlements in the West Bank</a>. Also: The Baker Institute's <em><a href="http://bakerinstitute.org/publications/BI-pub-IPTerritorialEndgame-020210.pdf">Getting to the Territorial Endgame of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement</a></em> and <a href="http://washingtoninstitute.org/pubPDFs/StrategicReport06.pdf"><em>Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue</em></a> a 2011 Washington Institute for Near East Policy report by David Makovsky
The magazine mentions their <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/the-atlantic-israel-and-palestine/247262/">long history of covering the conflict</a>.
Other coverage:
Newsweek has <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/23/best-deal-ever.print.html">excerpts</a> from former secretary of state Condoleeza Rice's new memoir. Atlantic: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/what-condi-rices-memoir-gets-wrong-and-right-on-israel-palestine/247423/">What Condi Rice's Memoir Gets Wrong (and Right) on Israel-Palestine </a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.109032Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:37:51 -0800zarq